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Run-Out Groove: Inside Capitol’s 1980s Hits and Stiffs By Dave Morrell 271 pp. $12.99 Self-published, available on Amazon The fourth volume of music biz publicist/promo man Dave Morrell’s ongoing memoir charts his decade at the storied label’s New York offices. He was there during a crucial changing of the guard...
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Jeff Porcaro: It’s About Time – The Man and His Music By Robyn Flans 241 pp. $24.99 Hudson Music With all due respect to Kevin Bacon, in terms of Classic Rock challenge games, a good one would be “Six Degrees of Jeff Porcaro.” Just a partial list of the artists...
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Confess: The Autobiography By Rob Halford 368 pp. $30 Hachette Books For much of the 1970’s and ‘80s, even as he was fronting Judas Priest, one of the most popular, loved, and revered heavy metal bands of all time, lead singer Rob Halford was scared shitless. Scared that if the...
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Ninety seconds doesn’t seem like a long amount of time. Most people can sing all of “The Star Spangled Banner” in that period. But a minute and a half was all that it took for 100 people to die and 200+ more to be seriously injured on the night of...
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Do You Feel Like I Do?: A Memoir By Peter Frampton with Alan Light 352 pp. $28 Hachette Books If rock star careers were measured in terms of their level of roller coaster-ness, then Peter Frampton’s would be a ride on (shout out to Astroworld) the Texas Cyclone, Greezed Lightnin’,...
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While their names are often known only to music nerds and credit line readers, the iconic images taken by A-list Classic Rock and Roll Photographers are familiar from hundreds of record covers, T-shirts, posters, and prints which now can be seen in high-end galleries. This small club includes shutterbugs like...
